News published on Federal Newswire in June 2021

News from June 2021


U.S. Marshals Fugitve Task Force Arrests Chambersburg Shooting Suspect in Washington D.C.

News Release: Harrisburg, PA - Today, U.S. Marshal Martin J. Pane announced the arrest of Jayluen Deandre Childs, a 26-year old man with past addresses in Chambersburg and Washington D.C.


2021 Fiscal Transparency Report: Mozambique

Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Mozambique. The government made significant progress by making topline information on debt obligations, including bilateral debt and state-owned enterprise debt, publicly available within a reasonable period of time. During the review period, the government did not...


News Release: Summary: At 5:30pm June 24, 2021, the Color Country Interagency Communication Center received a report of a wildland fire start. Local resources are on scene and aerial resources are currently being used. Smoke can be seen from St. George, Utah.


Hinton Man Pleads Guilty to Federal Child Pornography Charge

News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - A Hinton man pleaded guilty today to a federal child pornography charge - his second federal child pornography conviction in seven years.


Jefferson County man admits to firearms charge

News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Warren Long, of Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia, has admitted to a firearms charge, Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.


News Release: GREAT FALLS -A Great Falls businessman was sentenced on June 24 to nine months in prison and ordered to pay $148,735 restitution for employment tax fraud, Acting U.S. Attorney Leif M. Johnson said today.


News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis Holmes announced that a Milbank, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Possession with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance.


News Release: WASHINGTON - A Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) Officer and a Maryland woman were indicted on charges in connection with a bribery scheme to unlawfully provide information contained in non-public police paperwork identifying individuals involved in traffic accidents in exchange for cash payments, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Channing D. Phillips.


2021 Fiscal Transparency Report: Lesotho

Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Lesotho. During the review period, the government did not make its enacted budget proposal or end-of-year report publicly available online within a reasonable amount of time.  Information on debt obligations was not publicly available.  Budget documents provided...


Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.


News Release: MOOSE, WY-Grand Teton National Park staff recently relocated a subadult grizzly bear within the park after the bear received a food reward in two incidents due to irresponsible human actions. A food storage violation citation with a mandatory court appearance was issued to one individual and both incidents are under investigation.


2021 Fiscal Transparency Report: Egypt

Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Egypt. During the review period, the government made its budget documents widely and easily accessible to the general public, including online.  Information on debt obligations was publicly available online, with the exception of state-owned enterprise debt.  Budget...


2021 Fiscal Transparency Report: Belize

Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Belize. During the review period, the government made its enacted budget, end-of-year report, and information on debt obligations widely accessible to the general public, including online.  However, it did not publish an executive budget proposal within a reasonable...


2021 Fiscal Transparency Report: Eswatini

Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Eswatini. During the review period, budget documents were available to the general public; however, the executive budget proposal and the end-of-year report were not available online within a reasonable amount of time.  Information on debt obligations was publicly...


2021 Fiscal Transparency Report: Bahrain

Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Bahrain. During the review period, the government made significant progress by publishing for the first time its executive budget proposal within a reasonable period of time.  The government published its enacted budget and mid-year budget execution report within...


2021 Fiscal Transparency Report: Ethiopia

Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Ethiopia. During the review period, the government made its enacted budget available to the general public online.  The executive budget proposal, however, was not published, quarterly budget execution reports were not publicly available, and its end-of-year report...


2021 Fiscal Transparency Report: Saudi Arabia

Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Saudi Arabia. During the review period, the government made some, but not all, budget documents publicly available online.  Information on debt obligations was publicly available online.  The limited data available in the government’s annual budget statement broke...


Briefing on the Secretary’s Upcoming Participation in the Meeting on Syria, The D-ISIS Ministerial, and the G20

Release: MR ICE: Yes, thank you. Hello, everyone, and thank you for joining us today. It’s my pleasure to welcome you to this call previewing Secretary Blinken’s trip to Italy for meetings on Syria, the D-ISIS coalition, and the G20. The trip was announced officially on June 18th.


Department of State Releases 2021 Fiscal Transparency Report

Release: On June 25, 2021, the United States Department of State released the 2021 Fiscal Transparency Report, which found that 74 of the 141 governments reviewed by the Department met minimum requirements of fiscal transparency. Seventeen of the 67 governments that did not meet minimum requirements made significant progress during the review period.


News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that the following persons were arraigned or appeared this week before U.S. Magistrate judges on indictments handed down by the Grand Jury or on criminal complaints. The charging documents are merely accusations and defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.